The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-03-31
The Orphan Asylum is Considered
in the House.
The Asylum for the Afflicted Col
ored Children is Passed in
the House.
The Senate Passes the Greer
County Bill, with an Amend
ment, and the Educa-
tional Bill.

ASYLUM FOR AFFLICTED coLoRED CHILDREN
The house of representatives yesterda!
passed bill that will make them famous
and, from the time il took to accomplish
it, il will be seen there was very little dis
play of mossbackism or illiberality. Tit
bill was for the purpose of appropriatine
$4,000 for the construction and estab
lishnent of an asylum for the coloreo
blind, and deaf and dumb children. The
bill was taken up yesterday morning at
l1:15 o'clock, and before the hands OF the
clock pointed to IL IL was
finally passed, under suspension
of the rules. This beats Chicago
divorce case, although 1t was
speed in the right direction, and In TINS
particular unlike the divorce mills"
There has been through the entire north
Elm states, wherever there was newspa-
per trucking to the republican party,
constant abuse of the south, and even at
present Senator Sherman and some of
his ilk are turning out political capital
from their outrage mill from Washington
county. There are hundreds of thou
sands, or even millions, of people in the
extreme north who believe that the col
condition of quasi slavery. The house
yesterday, with not even corporals
guard of republicans in its midst, rose
above race prejudice, and did thing
which will hardly get credence with the
northern extremists. Or course IL was
right and proper, but human nature, espe-
cially in politics, does not always do what
is right and proper. 1t shows determi-
nation on the part of the state of Texas
FOL unRe forward into the front ranks of
progress and liberality, and such policy
will never lose
One of the colored members, Moore, of
Washington, made plain and sensible
appeal for the appropriation, which was
loudly applauded. Several members made
speeches on the subject, the most forcible
OF which were those of Garwood, of Bas-
trop, and Moore, of Travis. Bell, of
Cooke, also made an appeal on
behalf of the colored people, and earnestly
opposed the cutting down of the appro-
priation one dollar. There were only
about ten members opposed to the BILL
LATIMER vs.. LATIN.
Mr.. Latimer, who, by the way, should be
named Latin-er, bristled all over with al
legged Latin quotations yesterday morn
ing. In making reference to the quot
ing of his"Latin motto" in the house the
day before, he said that "Canfield is not
the only liar who has entered this house,"
Granting that Garfield is a disciple of
Ananias TO please the "schollard" from
Palo Pinto, THE STATESMAN would agree
with him even If he were the only man in
the house. Out of a tender regard for
Mr.. Latimer, because he has done one or
two sensible things, The STATESMAN did
not give his bungling attempts at making
the Latin quotation correctly. The more
he said about it the further he was "off,"
and if he had kept up much longer he
would have led his brother members to
believe he was as poor Eatinist as leg
islator. From his explanation on the
question of privilege it is evident that he
got several pages of Latin quotations in
the back Of dictionary by heart night
before last, in order to be ready to slaugh-
ter the poor newspaper reporter. And,
by the way, The STArEMAN begs lief to tell
the gentleman that he makes bastard of
"lapsus lingu@" by putting it "lapsus
lingui." Mr.. Latimer, stick to plain United
States, and do not trust too much to the
credulity and ignorance of your audience.